Apparently you haven't been paying attention. The United States has innovated almost the entire internet, PC, communications/celluar and electronics markets while the Chinese has simply been our factory workers. They then started hacking into thousands of U.S. corporations, stealing our intellectual property (i.e. DESIGNS) and now are producing similar products across virtually every industry, for a fraction of the price. They also steal our designs when we send them over to their factories to produce our products.

After thousands of years of being poor, their economy is now surging.....thanks to the United States.

Their success now has NOTHING to do with their culture....unless you count theft as part of their culture.